Little Quacks Fall Through Cracks

December 18, 1985

SANFORD — Nine baby ducks were plucked from a storm sewer Tuesday after a county employee saw them fall in and called city employees to rescue them.

The Muscovy ducklings were following their mother, attempting to cross Seminole Boulevard from Lake Carola in Fort Mellon Park to Lake Monroe. The mother duck walked across the metal grate covering the storm sewer, but the ducklings fell through.

''They just fell in one after another,'' said Laura Wiseman, 25, a switchboard operator for Seminole County. Wiseman, who was on her lunch hour, was sitting in her car parked along the lakefront when she saw the ducks fall into the sewer.

The grate was too heavy for Wiseman to remove and the sewer too deep for her to reach through. Another county employee came over to watch the ducks while Wiseman left to call Sanford city hall. Two sewer department employees arrived a few minutes later to rescue the ducklings.